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The American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), one of the three journals with the highest impact on international scientific publications in interdisciplinary science, published in June 2013, the article "Dynamics of brain networks in the aesthetic appreciation" reflecting the work of researchers on brain areas that respond to the beauty and how these change over time perception.

That process of fast appreciation of beauty coincides with what the specialists called a "Aha Moment". The Aha Moment! is the mental process that leads to sudden solution of a problem without even paying attention, and is known to be related to the brain network that is activated in the brain during resting state (called Default Network or in English "Default Network "). The network identified aesthetic researchers now EVOCOG (IFISC, UIB), IFISC (UIB-CSIC) and the Center for Biomedical Technologies (CTB) largely coincides with the Default Network.

• UIB Press Release (12/06/2013)
• Diario de Mallorca (13/06/2013)
• Ara Balears i Ara Barcelona (16/06/2013)
• El Mundo (18/06/2013)
• EsMateria